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- Free allowance
- Models whose id ends in :free cost $0.00; limits are 5 requests per minute and 200 requests per day on the rate-limits page, and 20 requests per minute and 200 requests per day on the FAQ page, so the two pages disagree on the per-minute figure
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-raterate-limits page: 5 requests per minute and 200 requests per day on :free models; FAQ page: 20 requests per minute and 200 requests per day; the daily figure agrees and resets at 00:00 UTC
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-29checked 2026-10-29 (live); stale on 2026-11-29
| Free tier | models whose id ends in :free cost $0.00; limits are 5 requests per minute and 200 requests per day on the rate-limits page, and 20 requests per minute and 200 requests per day on the FAQ page, so the two pages disagree on the per-minute figure unit requests; metered on request-count; the FAQ calls the limits hard caps with no way to increase them; paid models need a positive account balance |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) rate-limits page: 5 requests per minute and 200 requests per day on :free models; FAQ page: 20 requests per minute and 200 requests per day; the daily figure agrees and resets at 00:00 UTC source
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| Binding | request-rate 5 or 20 requests per minute, against a 200 requests per day cap that binds either way |
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| Identity | card the terms list 'a valid email address and payment method' among account-creation requirements; whether the dashboard enforces a payment method before issuing a key for :free models was not observed |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Interface | rest |
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| Tooling | any OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.routeway.ai/v1; Anthropic-style /v1/messages for models that expose it |
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| Composes with | a free :free model set behind one key, usable as a low-priority overflow lane next to the other gateways |
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| Reliability | free models run in a lower-priority routing queue with more 502 upstream errors and can be removed at any time |
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| Evidence note | documented limits and the queue statement are quoted from the vendor's docs; the two docs pages disagree on the per-minute figure and the sign-up enforcement was not observed. |
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| Parsed numbers | - request-rate 5 requests / minute
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Evidence 6
Unknown values 3
$.egress.metered egress metering was not published$.per_object_cap.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.retention.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer